[Nmh-workers] NMH Work-arounds for Exchange server mangling (OT???)

2012-08-16 Thread Kevin Cosgrove
Hi, I have to deal with email going through an Exchange server on a daily basis. A few months back that server started mangling email my email message content. I'm trying to use nmh to craft my emails such that Exchange won't mangle it. SOME BACKGROUND (skip to QUESTION, if you wish) The

[Nmh-workers] Replying to UTF-8 (and others?)

2012-08-16 Thread Kevin Cosgrove
Hi, I'm trying to get just a little better result in crafting a reply draft message. I'm using Ken's very nice 'replyfilter' script and recipe, which formats nearly all of the body of the message perfectly. But, I still get a little cruft in the body, thus On 15 August 2012 at 15:36,

Re: [Nmh-workers] NMH Work-arounds for Exchange server mangling (OT???)

2012-08-16 Thread Howard Bampton
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Kevin Cosgrove kev...@cosgroves.us wrote: Is there a better way to use mhn to unpack the attachments, converting DOS form back to UNIX form? I suppose I could write a shell script to alter the files after mhn unpacks them. It doesn't fix the actual problem,

Re: [Nmh-workers] NMH Work-arounds for Exchange server mangling (OT???)

2012-08-16 Thread Kevin Cosgrove
On 16 August 2012 at 12:55, Howard Bampton howard.bamp...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Kevin Cosgrove kev...@cosgroves.us wrote: Is there a better way to use mhn to unpack the attachments, converting DOS form back to UNIX form? I suppose I could write a shell

[Nmh-workers] bcc components

2012-08-16 Thread Michael Richardson
send(1) says that when constructing the headers for the BCC recipient, that it: Prior to sending the message, the fields From: user@local, and Date: now will be appended to the headers in the message. If the environment variable $SIGNATURE is set, then its value

Re: [Nmh-workers] bcc components

2012-08-16 Thread David Levine
Michael wrote: send(1) says that when constructing the headers for the BCC recipient, that it: Prior to sending the message, the fields From: user@local, and Date: now will be appended to the headers in the message. If the environment variable $SIGNATURE is set, then its value is used as

Re: [Nmh-workers] NMH Work-arounds for Exchange server mangling (OT???)

2012-08-16 Thread David Levine
Kevin wrote: I'm trying to use nmh to craft my emails such that Exchange won't mangle it. Good luck with that :-/ I've given up, I've found Exchange to be unpredictable. Is there a better way to use mhn to unpack the attachments, converting DOS form back to UNIX form? I suppose I could

Re: [Nmh-workers] NMH Work-arounds for Exchange server mangling (OT???)

2012-08-16 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-08-16, at 17:38 PM, David Levine wrote: I think that's the best way to handle it. Howard mentioned dos2unix, which I use also. tr -d \015 signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ Nmh-workers mailing list

Re: [Nmh-workers] NMH Work-arounds for Exchange server mangling (OT???)

2012-08-16 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:37:17 -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg said: tr -d \015 Almost, but not quite correct. Unfortunately, that will corrupt a file that happened to have a bare carriage-return character that wasn't part of a CR/LF pair. (Of course, having such a character embedded in the middle of

Re: [Nmh-workers] bcc components

2012-08-16 Thread Michael Richardson
I'm running: ii nmh 1.5-release-0.2 from debian wheezy. (testing) David == David Levine levin...@acm.org writes: David Prior to sending the message, the Date: now field will be David appended to the headers in the message. David With nmh

Re: [Nmh-workers] NMH Work-arounds for Exchange server mangling (OT???)

2012-08-16 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-08-16, at 19:03 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: Almost, but not quite correct. Unfortunately, that will corrupt a file that happened to have a bare carriage-return character that wasn't part of a CR/LF pair. (Of course, having such a character embedded in the middle of a

Re: [Nmh-workers] bcc components

2012-08-16 Thread David Levine
Michael wrote: I'm running: ii nmh 1.5-release-0.2 from debian wheezy. (testing) I don't do debian so I can't readily look at it. But how could the send(1) man page be from 1.4? Yeah, but that's *in* my Components... and it did use that for the main

Re: [Nmh-workers] bcc components

2012-08-16 Thread David Levine
I wrote: = MAIL FROM:sen...@example.com = 250 2.1.0 sen...@example.com... Sender ok and sure enough, the received bcc has that From:. If I add a To: address, both have that From:, as I expect. My sendmail adds those From: headers. Does (your) postfix? Maybe we shouldn't rely on that?